Encrypted Silence

Encrypted SilenceAvalana Rose is a phantom. A brilliant ethical hacker who operates in the digital gray spaces, her only rule is to protect her younger sibling from the predators of the online world. But when her search for a threat leads her deep into the unlisted, criminal heart of a corporate empire, she breaches the one firewall that should have been untouchable.

She finds Nathan Huxley.

The enigmatic CEO of Huxley Global Tech is not just building AI-he's running the world's most powerful, illegal political and corporate control system: The Fixer Net. Nathan views emotion as a security risk and humanity as an inefficiency. He lives by logic, and now, Avalana is the most critical threat his system has ever encountered.

Instead of silencing her, Nathan claims her.

With a single, iron-clad contract-and a devastating $50 million lien placed over her sibling's entire future-Nathan coerces Avalana into his high-tech, coastal fortress. Now bound by The Huxley Protocol, she is forced to work in the central server room, becoming the chief architect of the very shadow network she despises.

Their world becomes a cage of glass and steel, where every rule is a challenge and every mission is an act of international sabotage. As their collaboration intensifies, their rivalry burns into a dangerous, intellectual attraction. Avalana hates the control he wields, but she cannot deny the chilling thrill of their shared power. Nathan is obsessed with her defiance, seeing her not as a prisoner, but as the indispensable variable his perfect algorithm was missing.

He claimed her to secure his empire. She stayed to save her family. But in a world run by data and leverage, what happens when the controller starts viewing his asset as his obsession?

In the ultimate digital battlefield, the price of freedom is silence, and the cost of love is absolute, irrevocable control.